The band, who have just completed a small run of UK dates, picked up the $30,000 (£19,300) prize at a ceremony in Toronto last night.

The award was accepted on behalf of the band by drummer Jeremy Gara and multi-instrumentalist Richard Parry, who thanked the panel for the award and described it as “a great honour.”

Gara also used the acceptance speech to give a message to young musicians, he said:

Anyone who is under 18 and playing music and everyone who has ever been on stage and had the opportunity to play music and have someone hear it, just stick with it, because in 20 years you could be up here and have an album much better than this.

You can watch a video of Arcade Fire being interviewed before their huge outdoor show at London‘s Hyde Park earlier this summer by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.
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